While democracy was developing, while men were seeking to reform national politics and to find some means by which the people might be represented justly in the government, a new movement entered into literature to give it a broadened scope and a...
The aim of this thesis is to show that there is found in this "noblest of comic masterpieces" an absorbing study of mankind and a profound knowledge of the human heart. It is In his work that man gives himself to the world; in his...
Autographed portrait of R. G. (Robert Green) Ingersoll seated, wearing a three-piece suit and tie. Ingersoll lectured on "Why I Am an Agnostic" at Macauley's Theatre on February 23, 1898. In previous years, he had given lectures on...